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Located at the base of the rolling hills of the Laurel Highlands, Latrobe is best known as the birthplace of childrens television pioneer Fred Rogers and golf legend Arnold Palmer. It is the home of Rolling Rock Beer, Pittsburgh Steelers training camp, and St. Vincent College. Latrobe has also been recognized for many famous firsts, like the first banana split, first all-professional football team, first Benedictine monastery in the United States, first nonstop airmail pickup, and first female nuclear scientist at Westinghouse Electric Company. It is a community of individuals who collectively exemplify the strong, hardworking culture of Western Pennsylvaniapeople like Oliver Barnes, a railroad engineer and Latrobes founder; Philip Mowry McKenna, innovator in the machining of steel and father of Kennametal tools; Joseph E.